The last ten days or so have left Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, in damage-control mode as he tries to distance himself from an incendiary, racially-charged anti-Barack Obama ad campaign that would have featured the president’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. After two or three news cycles in which Ricketts was harshly criticized for his […]
Gay marriage should be legal, regardless of what churches think
May 11, 2012 By 2 Comments

In the contentious debate surrounding gay marriage, a couple of conservative talking points stand out for their irrationality. One of those is the notion that allowing same-sex couples to marry would represent a gross usurpation of religious freedom. Like the equally ridiculous idea that homosexual marriage would somehow undermine heterosexual marriage, the notion of infringing […]
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